# Personalized Reddit feeds show error "Not an RSS feed (553)"

**URL:** <https://forum.newsblur.com/t/personalized-reddit-feeds-show-error-not-an-rss-feed-553/13803>\
**Category:** problem\
**Created:** [August 18, 2026, 6:38am UTC](https://forum.newsblur.com/t/personalized-reddit-feeds-show-error-not-an-rss-feed-553/13803 "2026-08-18T06:38:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![ck42de](https://forum.newsblur.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@ck42de](https://forum.newsblur.com/u/ck42de)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2026, 6:38am UTC](https://forum.newsblur.com/t/personalized-reddit-feeds-show-error-not-an-rss-feed-553/13803/1 "2026-08-18T06:38:57Z")

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Hi,

since August 10th my personalized Reddit feeds show this error:

```auto
2026-08-16 03:36:58 Not an RSS feed (553)

2026-08-13 10:36:07 Not an RSS feed (553)

2026-08-11 16:24:46 Not an RSS feed (553)

2026-08-10 22:09:15 Not an RSS feed (553)

```

URL looks like this:

> **[Welcome to Reddit](https://old.reddit.com/r/ada/top/.rss?feed=user-id&sort=top&t=week&user=user-name)**
>
> Log in or sign up to personalize your feed, join conversations, vote, and explore communities.

Non-personalized feed seems to work, apart from the usual rate limiting.

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**Author:** ![ck42de](https://forum.newsblur.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@ck42de](https://forum.newsblur.com/u/ck42de)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2026, 7:17am UTC](https://forum.newsblur.com/t/personalized-reddit-feeds-show-error-not-an-rss-feed-553/13803/2 "2026-08-21T07:17:28Z")

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Reddit just made a change. Access to [old.reddit.com](http://old.reddit.com) does not seem to be possible anymore without logging in first. This includes RSS feeds… 😑

I can access [https://www.reddit.com/r/ada/top/.rss?sort=top&t=week](https://www.reddit.com/r/ada/top/.rss?sort=top&t=week) in the browser, but Newsblur shows

```auto
Sorry, there was an unhandled error.

```

Same for the personlized URL of that RSS feed.

Edit: No clue what Reddit is doing, but one of my [old.reddit.com](http://old.reddit.com) feeds just got updated again…
